Top 19 Korea anime you should watch right now. [2025 List]

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19. Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Season 2 - Arise from the Shadow
18. Ore Dake Level Up na Ken
17. K-POP DEMON HUNTERS
16. Saibi
15. Ohoshisama no Rail
14. Dae Jang Geum: Jang Geum's Dream
13. Chang
12. Dwaejiui Wang
11. Oseam
10. Watashi no Coffee Samurai: Jihanki-teki na Kareshi
9. Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi
8. My Beautiful Girl Mari
7. Shin Angyo Onshi
6. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 16
5. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 17
4. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 7
3. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 2
2. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 12
1. Byunshin Jadongcha Tobot Season 3

19. Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Season 2 - Arise from the Shadow

Jinwoo Sung has become a formidable necromancer with an army of loyal shadows at his command. But he must master these abilities while keeping them hidden from other hunters, all while racing against the clock to save his mother. As he faces humanity's toughest foes, Jinwoo pushes his body and mind to the limit, and the full extent of his newfound power is revealed.

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 俺だけレベルアップな件 Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-, Na Honjaman Level Up 2, 나 혼자만 레벨업 2, 俺だけレベルアップな件第2期, Ore dake Level Up na Ken 2nd Season

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18. Ore Dake Level Up na Ken

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

Solo Leveling has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 俺だけレベルアップな件, 나 혼자만 레벨업, Na Honjaman Level Up

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17. K-POP DEMON HUNTERS

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira, and Zoey aren’t selling out stadiums, they’re using their secret identities as demon hunters to protect their fans from ever-present supernatural danger. Together, they must face their biggest threat — an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: K-POP DEMON HUNTERS

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16. Saibi

Who is good and who is evil? What is the boundary between them? An animated thriller about the tension between a good-hearted person speaking falsely and an evil-natured person speaking truthfully, and of those that surround them.

Saibi has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 사이비, The Fake

15. Ohoshisama no Rail

This is the autobiographic tale of Kobayashi Chitose, a young Japanese girl growing up in a Japanese-occupied North Korea. As World War II progresses, Chitose begins to realize that her family will not be able to escape the effects of the conflict. From the simple disappointment of not being able to get the type of backpack she wants for school, to her father's recruitment as a soldier, the war begins to impact her life in a very real manner. But the end of the war does not mean the end of hardship for her. The Koreans, fed up with years of Japanese rule and persecution, have joined forces with a Chinese-backed communist government and are systematically making life a living horror for the Japanese left in North Korea. Fearing reprisal since he was a Japanese veteran, Chitose's father risks everything to get his family out of the north and to the US-occupied area south of the 38th parallel.

Ohoshisama no Rail has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: お星さまのレール, O-Hoshisama no Rail, Ohoshi-sama no Rail

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14. Dae Jang Geum: Jang Geum's Dream

Story is about the girl Jang Geum who wants to be a cook. She gets accepted as a palace servant. Clever and cheerful Jang Geum quickly finds friends. But all to soon she encounters intrigue and corruption.
A Korean/Japanese joint production.

Dae Jang Geum: Jang Geum's Dream has finished airing and it has 26 Episodes. It is also Known as: 少女チャングムの夢, Shoujo Changumu no Yume, Janggeum's Dream, Changumu no Yume - Dae Jang Geum, 장금이의 꿈

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13. Chang

Sergeant Jeong Cheol-min's squad are staying indoors a corroded stockroom renovated without windows. His squad is well known for their hardworking members until councellor Hong Yeong-soo comes in. Jeong Cheol-min does all he can to make Hong Yeong-soo the right man for his squad and the army requires him to. However, private Hong Yeong-soo doesn't adjust to the surroundings and causes trouble.

Chang has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 창, The Window

12. Dwaejiui Wang

After his business goes bankrupt, 30-something Kyung-Min (Oh Jung-Se) kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Suk (Yang Ik-June). Jong-Suk now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years, they meet. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days.
At their middle school, they were classified by their wealth and grades. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk were at the bottom. They were called pigs. They were bullied by a ruling class called dogs. When they were called pigs, they got angry but couldn't do anything against the dogs. Then a king of pigs appears—Chul (Kim Hye-Na). Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk became to rely on Chul-Yi.
Now, leading Jong-Suk to their middle school grounds, Kyung-Min discloses the shocking truth to Jong-Suk of what happened 15 years ago.

Dwaejiui Wang has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 돼지의 왕, The King of the Pigs

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11. Oseam

The animation is based on the fairy tale of the same name with the local sale over 100,000 copies by Jeong Chae-bong, a writer well known for his innocent and heart-stirring tales. It is a story about two orphans, Gil-son, a five-year-old boy, and his blind sister Gam-i who are brought up by a charitable monk at a secluded temple in Mt. Seorak. Gil-son, a mischievous boy, is the guide for this hour-long travel in search of innocence. Having a pure heart, he befriends all living things and communicates with clouds, birds and flowers. One snowy day, however...

Oseam has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 오세암, Oseam

10. Watashi no Coffee Samurai: Jihanki-teki na Kareshi

The story is set in present day Seoul and involves a college student named Hemi who falls in love with a coffee vending machine named Jin. Jin is actually a samurai from the Sengoku period who wished to be re-born with an invincible steel body when he fell to assassins, hence the vending machine body.

Coffee Samurai has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: わたしのコーヒー・サムライ～自販機的な彼氏～, My Coffee Samurai: A Vending Machine Boyfriend

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9. Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi

Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox revolves around a kumiho, a nine-tailed fox that can assume different forms including human. Kumiho are familiar figures in Korean folk tales, and they are usually depicted as magical creatures that take female form to lure and prey on humans. This time, however, our protagonist is a young, kind-hearted fox with only five tails, instead of nine.
After losing her family to fox hunters, five-tailed Yobi lives in the forest with some shipwrecked aliens, far away from the humans. When one of her alien friends gets captured by a villager, Yobi has no choice but to adventure into the human world to rescue him. At the village, Yobi meets many humans, including Geum Yee who studies at a school for maladjusted children. Interested in Geum Yee, Yobi joins the students and revels in the fun of human life, but both a fox hunter and a mysterious shadow man are on her trail.

Yobi: The Five Tailed Fox has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 천년여우 여우비, Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox

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8. My Beautiful Girl Mari

When office worker Nam-woo receives a package from childhood friend Jun-ho it transports him back to their last summer together. Back to their hometown in a small fishing village it the last few days before Jun-ho left for boarding school in Seoul. When a marble and an abandoned lighthouse had the power to transport him to a fantastic world where a mysterious flying girl named Mari lived.

My Beautiful Girl Mari has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: My Beautiful Girl Mari

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7. Shin Angyo Onshi

Blade of the Phantom Master takes place in the fictional land of Jushin, modeled after feudal Korea. In Jushin, there once lived secret government agents called the amheng osa (or angyō onshi in the Japanese version), who traveled the countryside in disguise. They were charged by the king with finding and punishing corrupt government officials, and bringing justice to the country's citizens.

At the start of the series, Jushin has been destroyed, fractured into numerous fiefdoms and kingdoms, many of which are ruled by corrupt and tyrannical warlords. Blade of the Phantom Master follows the adventures of one of the remaining amheng osa, Munsu, as he continues to wander the countryside and deals with the chaos caused by Jushin's fall.

Blade of the Phantom Master has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 新暗行御史, Shin Angyou Onshi, Shin Amen Osa, Shin Angyou Onsi, Phantom Master: Dark Hero from the Ruined Empire

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